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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Shinuki no Reborn]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #50 (2026)
00. Akane-banashi (Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. Sakamoto Days
02. One Piece
00. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
03. Someone Hertz
04. Ichi the Witch
05. Roku's House of Oddities
00. Shishikabane (One Shot by Maki Gyujirou, Color Page, Golden Future Cup #7)
06. Shinobi Undercover
07. The Ura Files
08. Witch Watch
09. Graykeith: Translator Daemonica
00. Me & Roboco (Color Page)
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Under Doctor
12. Animal Signal
13. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz
14. Hal Formula
15. Kagurabachi
16. Cannon Master

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #51 (2026) - Information!
Jean is in Danger! (New Series by Nakama Ryo, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
Witch Watch (Color Page, End)
Graykeith: Translator Daemonica (Color Page)
Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)

 

[Bulju]

I still think KB's early success may be partly due to editorial bias. Why else it tank the moment the EiC change? Same as how Shinobi got shilled to hell

People won't acknowledge it anymore, but it was pretty agreed upon at one point.

 

[monstera11]

People won't acknowledge it anymore, but it was pretty agreed upon at one point.

This is the reason why I will always antagonize Nakano. Imagine almost killing your golden goose. It is like if Sharbait was the EiC

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No one likes roboco

Is my name "no one"?

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Midoriya did not invent wimpy MC.

Nobita exist

 

[Pedroland17]

The mistake is believing in Fujimaki. He has already proven he’s not a good storyteller. Kuroko no Basket has a ton of flaws, with the anime being far superior to the manga. If I were an editor-in-chief, I wouldn’t accept anything else coming from him.

 

[RealityChecker]

The mistake is believing in Fujimaki. He has already proven he’s not a good storyteller. Kuroko no Basket has a ton of flaws, with the anime being far superior to the manga. If I were an editor-in-chief, I wouldn’t accept anything else coming from him.

Imagine not accepting a work from a best-seller author...

 

[KrenKren]

The mistake is believing in Fujimaki. He has already proven he’s not a good storyteller. Kuroko no Basket has a ton of flaws, with the anime being far superior to the manga. If I were an editor-in-chief, I wouldn’t accept anything else coming from him.

"Yeah your previous serialisation might have been doing 600k and more than double what anything currently in the magazine not named One Piece does in a couple days, but I didn't personally enjoy it so you're not getting in again. Goodbye."

Good thing MH users aren't editor in chief, huh. I've never read Kuroko no Basket but Kill Blue wasn't that bad, especially not to start with.

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

The mistake is believing in Fujimaki. He has already proven he’s not a good storyteller. Kuroko no Basket has a ton of flaws, with the anime being far superior to the manga. If I were an editor-in-chief, I wouldn’t accept anything else coming from him.

you know which series also has tons of flaws? The best selling story of this magazine lol

 

[Pedroland17]

"Yeah your previous serialisation might have been doing 600k and more than double what anything currently in the magazine not named One Piece does in a couple days, but I didn't personally enjoy it so you're not getting in again. Goodbye."

Good thing MH users aren't editor in chief, huh. I've never read Kuroko no Basket but Kill Blue wasn't that bad, especially not to start with.

I’ve read everything he’s done. I picked up Kuroko no Basket near the end of its run, but I read both Robot x Laserbeam and Kill Blue from start to finish. Both series follow the same pattern: a promising premise, initial sales well above the average for newcomers, and then a steady decline in both narrative quality and sales.

Kuroko no Basket was a case somewhat similar to Kimetsu no Yaiba, the anime massively boosted its sales, and those adaptations were insanely good. As for Fujimaki himself, I don’t consider him a particularly talented author. There were a lot of external factors involved in that success, and I doubt those circumstances will ever be replicated again.

 

[kiyoshibro]

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi Volume 8

Spoiler

Great cover if we consider the full context of the volume, but for the cover itself only shishido and background is good

 

[RealityChecker]

I’ve read everything he’s done. I picked up Kuroko no Basket near the end of its run, but I read both Robot x Laserbeam and Kill Blue from start to finish. Both series follow the same pattern: a promising premise, initial sales well above the average for newcomers, and then a steady decline in both narrative quality and sales.

Kuroko no Basket was a case somewhat similar to Kimetsu no Yaiba, the anime massively boosted its sales, and those adaptations were insanely good. As for Fujimaki himself, I don’t consider him a particularly talented author. There were a lot of external factors involved in that success, and I doubt those circumstances will ever be replicated again.

Even if everything you said is true, if WSJ worked under your conditions, we wouldn't get MHA or HunterXHunter, since both authors didn't get a better start on their careers.

 

[Pedroland17]

Even if everything you said is true, if WSJ worked under your conditions, we wouldn't get MHA or HunterXHunter, since both authors didn't get a better start on their careers.

No, no, that’s not what I mean, don’t get me wrong. It’s one thing to fail as a newcomer and come back improved. For example, Assassination Classroom went through something similar too, and I think the author evolved a lot.


It’s another thing entirely to believe the same stroke of luck that happened with Kuroko no Basket the first time will happen again with a veteran author who keeps showing no real evolution at all.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

This is why i don't really engage much in this discussion, no point in doing it when it just becomes people that never liked the manga arguing purely based in their personal feeling about the work, like reading that the series shouldn't have even got a anime or should've been axed at X point just because "i don't like this series..."

This is the reason why I will always antagonize Nakano. Imagine almost killing your golden goose. It is like if Sharbait was the EiC

Nakano is the guy that greenlighted the series and also acknowledged more than once the success in the west, so what exactly he had against the series?

People won't acknowledge it anymore, but it was pretty agreed upon at one point.

Saito became a EiC from issue #31 2024, Kill Blue was already starting to decline in the ToC 2/3 months before Saito.

 

[Kiaida]

Kuroko and Kimetsu no Yaiba did as well as they did because people like their story and characters, the anime brings attention, but the casual viewer will only go beyond to buy volumes if there's more in it to grab them. There are a ton of anime with great animation, it's not something so unique that you can use to explain all success an anime has.

This isn't even talking about sales = quality (I disagree a lot with this and it's one of the most annoying thing about shounen fans), but about mass appeal. Elusive Samurai is a popular manga and an anime adaptation that I consider even better than Kimetsu's, but the story isn't as acessible to the average viewer. Gotouge made a story that was simple enough to follow, but with characterization and themes that were universal.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

"Yeah your previous serialisation might have been doing 600k and more than double what anything currently in the magazine not named One Piece does in a couple days, but I didn't personally enjoy it so you're not getting in again. Goodbye."

Good thing MH users aren't editor in chief, huh. I've never read Kuroko no Basket but Kill Blue wasn't that bad, especially not to start with.

Not to mention even his first "failure" still sold over 100k copies per volume

 

[Pedroland17]

Kuroko and Kimetsu no Yaiba did as well as they did because people like their story and characters, the anime brings attention, but the casual viewer will only go beyond to buy volumes if there's more in it to grab them. There are a ton of anime with great animation, it's not something so unique that you can use to explain all success an anime has.

This isn't even talking about sales = quality (I disagree a lot with this and it's one of the most annoying thing about shounen fans), but about mass appeal. Elusive Samurai is a popular manga and an anime adaptation that I consider even better than Kimetsu's, but the story isn't as acessible to the average viewer. Gotouge made a story that was simple enough to follow, but with characterization and themes that were universal.

I completely agree with you. I think the success of Kuroko no Basket has a lot to do with it being such an engaging and exciting basketball story, which by itself is a theme that draws in a lot of people. It drew me in, for example. Even though I found the narrative a bit shaky at times, I kept following it because there was something there that resonated with me.

But after that, he made Robot, which was clearly a decline. And now Kill Blue has also been a disappointment. At what point does it stop making sense to believe an author can recapture the same magic of a first work when he has shown no real narrative growth since then? That’s my question.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

But after that, he made Robot, which was clearly a decline. And now Kill Blue has also been a disappointment. At what point does it stop making sense to believe an author can recapture the same magic of a first work when he has shown no real narrative growth since then? That’s my question.

You're just basing this in your personal feelings about the author, not objectivity, I liked Kill Blue infinitely more than Robot x Laserbeam and a good portion of Kuroko no Basket, much better written than RxL in my opinion.

Robot sold over 100k copies per volume which is faaar from a failure, bad surveys is what killed it, and Kill Blue went for a bit over 2 years with a anime adaptation that is currently getting good reception, this is already far more than what over 90% of former veteran Shonen Jump authors are ever able to achieve on Shonen Jump, Fujimaki is clearly not a one trick pony and can deliver popular series that grabs readers attention besides Kuroko.

 

[Shonenfan]

Both can be true. Robot and more so kb both did numbers and the latter was relatively successful, however both were disappointments in terms of expectations and neither series likely told their story in full as jump editorial felt it was time to cut the cord.

 

[Pedroland17]

You're just basing this in your personal feelings about the author, not objectivity, I liked Kill Blue infinitely more than Robot x Laserbeam and a good portion of Kuroko no Basket, much better written than RxL in my opinion.

Robot sold over 100k copies per volume which is faaar from a failure, bad surveys is what killed it, and Kill Blue went for a bit over 2 years with a anime adaptation that is currently getting good reception, this is already far more than what over 90% of former veteran Shonen Jump authors are ever able to achieve on Shonen Jump, Fujimaki is clearly not a one trick pony and can deliver popular series that grabs readers attention besides Kuroko.

Shinuki, you know very well the Japanese market was completely different back then. Selling 100k today is one thing, selling 100k back then was another. And that was only for the early volumes. By around volume 5, the drop was huge, and by the end Robot was already one of the lowest-selling titles in the magazine, matching its performance in the TOCs.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Shinuki, you know very well the Japanese market was completely different back then. Selling 100k today is one thing, selling 100k back then was another. And that was only for the early volumes. By around volume 5, the drop was huge, and by the end Robot was already one of the lowest-selling titles in the magazine, matching its performance in the TOCs.

Robot x Laserbeam had the 7th best first week sales for a Jump 1st volume of a original new series & the 10th best monthly sales since Oricon started tracking:

Weekly

1. Bakuman (154,676) - 7 Days
2. Assassination Classroom (121,058) - 3 Days
3. Ruri Dragon (74,874) - 6 Days
4. My Hero Academia (71,575) - 6 Days
5. Shokugeki no Souma (71,367) - 4 Days
6. Toriko (69,177) - 6 Days
7. Robot x Laserbeam (59,605) - 6 Days

Monthly

1. Assassination Classroom #1 (361,695)
2. Bakuman #1 (232,004)
3. My Hero Academia #1 (157,439)
4. Toriko #1 (139,756)
5. Shokugeki no Souma #1 (139,657)
6. Ruri Dragon #1 (134,183)
7. The Elusive Samurai #1 (126,215)
8. Beelzebub #1 (121,788)
9. Ane Doki #1 (109,581)
10. Robot x Laserbeam #1 (107,534)

Obs: I excluded sequels & spinoffs.

RxL was a pretty big initial success even for its time, unfortunately for the series the rankings didn't kept up and ended up axed but even axed was still selling 70k copies in a month with vol 5 a month after the axe, that's a lot even for 2020 which was the time Jump started to change and the level of sales for new Jump series started to decline more and more.

 

[cameronney618]

Robot sold over 100k copies per volume which is faaar from a failure,

Only vol 1 sold 100k.
It goes on a downward trend immediately and never recovered after that.
Who knows how far it would have gone down if it had continued.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Only vol 1 sold 100k. It goes on a downward trend immediately and never recovered after that.

We know that